{"id":35669,"date":"2026-06-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=35669"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:20:36","slug":"opry-legend-bill-cody-dies-at-67-after-health-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/06\/opry-legend-bill-cody-dies-at-67-after-health-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Opry Legend Bill Cody Dies At 67 After Health Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bill Cody<\/strong>, longtime Grand Ole Opry announcer and WSM Radio host, has died following kidney and heart failure complications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The radio veteran spent over three decades at WSM-AM Nashville, hosting &#8220;Coffee, Country &amp; Cody&#8221; since joining in 1994 with Charlie Daniels as his first studio guest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WSM Radio confirmed his passing, stating Cody &#8220;welcomed listeners each morning&#8221; with &#8220;conversational ease&#8221; and made &#8220;both artists and audiences feel at home.&#8221; His voice became &#8220;synonymous&#8221; with the Grand Ole Opry broadcast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cody earned recognition through Country Radio Hall of Fame induction, a Music City Walk of Fame star, and upcoming posthumous Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame honours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Country stars, including Garth Brooks and Dierks Bentley, paid tribute. &#8220;Nobody loved country music more than Bill Cody,&#8221; Brooks wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLike so many of us at the Opry, Bill Cody lived out his dreams on the Opry stage. More times than I could count he and I would look at each other as if to say, \u2018Can you believe we get to do this?\u2019 Even better, he made Opry audiences tuned in from around the world feel like they\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2xczmwYdcS\">pic.twitter.com\/2xczmwYdcS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Grand Ole Opry (@opry) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/opry\/status\/2064702195228930379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Cody, longtime Grand Ole Opry announcer and WSM Radio host, has died following kidney and heart failure complications. The radio veteran spent over three decades at WSM-AM Nashville, hosting &#8220;Coffee, Country &amp; Cody&#8221; since joining in 1994 with Charlie Daniels as his first studio guest. WSM Radio confirmed his passing, stating Cody &#8220;welcomed listeners","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7388,108,91,7389],"class_list":["post-35669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bill-cody","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-opry","tag-wsm-radio"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 17:43:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/06\/opry-legend-bill-cody-dies-at-67-after-health-battle\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35687,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35669\/revisions\/35687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}